{"id":50253,"date":"2015-05-12T14:50:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T18:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=50253"},"modified":"2015-05-12T14:52:52","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T18:52:52","slug":"teaching-what-do-great-college-professors-have-in-common-sanchez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2015\/05\/12\/teaching-what-do-great-college-professors-have-in-common-sanchez\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching: What do great college professors have in common? [Sanchez]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2015\/05\/11\/teaching-what-do-great-college-professors-have-in-common\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Teaching: What do great college professors have in common?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from kqed.org by Claudio Sanchez; an interview with Ken Bain, author of <em>What the Best College Teachers Do.\u00a0 <cite><\/cite><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>What do the best teachers do in the classroom that\u2019s different?<\/strong><br \/>\nThey create a critical learning environment in which students rethink their assumptions. It\u2019s an environment in which students believe their work will be considered fairly and honestly. The best teachers allow students to try, to fail and try again. They allow students to collaborate with one another in tackling the most intriguing problems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">They treat their students with decency and respect, no matter how much a student is struggling. The best teachers trust their students rather than blame them. They often give up their own sense of power over students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Why is that important?<\/strong><br \/>\nUltimately students have to take control of their own education. And if that doesn\u2019t happen, they\u2019re not going to learn deeply. Students have to have that intrinsic motivation and if there\u2019s someone else in charge of their education, telling them what to do, then they\u2019re not going to become those independent, lifelong learners. So a good teacher is there to inspire and guide the individual but ultimately to help them work on their own and take personal responsibility (for their learning).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching: What do great college professors have in common? &#8212; from kqed.org by Claudio Sanchez; an interview with Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do.\u00a0 Excerpt: What do the best teachers do in the classroom that\u2019s different? They create a critical learning environment in which students rethink their assumptions. It\u2019s an environment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,71,3,102,7,15,423,199,173,66,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-faculty-staff","category-higher-education","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-lifelong-learning","category-love-of-learning","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-pedagogy","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50257,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50253\/revisions\/50257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}